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Jane Austen was born on 16 December, 1775 at Steventon, Hampshire. Charlotte Bronte was Born on 21 April 1816 and Emily Bronte was born on 30 July, 1818 at Howarth, Yorkshire. However, the period in which Jane Austen and Brontes lived was one of the most eventtul and turbulent periods in the history of England. It teemed with many historical, Political, Social and literary upheavals. All were eminent in their influence on the intellectual milieu, social stability and class system of England and Europe.During this period, revolutionary ides in opposition to the aristocratic world of the eighteenth century were gaining ground. the American Revolution, the french Revolution, and the rise of Napoleon were to turn upside down most people’s traditional ideas. The ordinary people of france revolted against the tyranny of the monarchy and established a republic whose ideals were based on individual liberty, the success of both reolutions shook the foundation of European security and proved that royalmonarchy and the hierarchy were not of political and social necessity.In the spining mills, women sufferedfrom high temperature, lack of ventilion, defeating noise, contaminated meals, accidents, and tubercukosis. Thus, in the mill industry diseases were more serious and frequent than in the rest of industry or agriculture. However, there was a long and painful struggle to bring about improved conditions of women.They were chattels of their fathers and husbands. They were bought and sold in marriage. they could not vote..When they were not confined to home, they were forced by growing industrialization to join the lowest levels of the labour force. Since then progress towards equal for women has been very slow indeed.To be the mothers and farmers of a rational and immortal offspring; to be a kind of softer companions, who, by nameless delightful sympathies and endearments, improve men’s pleasures and soothe men’s pains; to lighten the load of domestic pains, and there by leave men more at leisure for labours or severe studies.Chapter One investigates in detail how jane Austen goes deeply into the minds of her heroines objectifing their inner conflicts and emotional and social problems. She reads the inner minds of her heroines, detecting their mistakes and iluminating their growth and maturity. In her earlier novels, jane Austen places a high emphasis on reason in determing what is good, with only a limited inquiry into the area of of feeling.Chapter Two introduces jane Eyre, the heroine of charlotte bronte’s Jane Eyre. This heroine carries the active and existing intelligence which charlotte bronte sees as existing and natural in all women. She plain and small yet she is intelligent and intersting since she has a craving for knowledge, a desire for independence, an extraordinary endurance, determination and a passionate yearning for love.Chapter Three presents catherine Earnshaw, the heroine of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights. This heroine carries her creator’s belief that we are not controlled by oyr reason or our consciences but by our feelings, desires and frustrations. Thus, the central moral conflicl in catherine’s life arisces.
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